MATHIEU VERDILHAN (1875-1928)

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MATHIEU VERDILHAN (1875-1928)
View of the port of Marseille Oil on panel Signed lower left " Verdilhan-M" 75 x 93 cm LOUIS MATHIEU VERDILHAN A self-taught painter, Louis Mathieu Verdilhan is in the tradition of the Provencal landscape painters of the second half of the 19th century, to whom he devoted a deep admiration. His first important personal and public exhibitions took place in 1902 at the Galerie Braun, then in 1905 at the Palais des Architectes in Marseille. Paris and Provence will be at the heart of his creation throughout his career. He took part in the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in 1906 and from 1908 in the Salon d'Automne. He then realized paintings developing sumptuous chromatic symphonies. He then discovers Fauvism, from 1909 onwards. However, his experimentation with movement remains very personal in his treatment, so that while the forms are curved and bent, he gives Fauvism a tonality peculiar to the accents of the Midi where abundant and warm matter and colour control their fusion. He also learns to transpose colours and to stretch them into flat tints, and then begins to envisage the creation of a particular perspective by layering the planes. In 1909, he exhibited in Paris at Bernheim's, alongside Edmond Cross, Félix Vallotton, Paul Signac, Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. The artist divided his time between Paris and Marseille, from 1910 to 1914, and participated in the "Provençal Renaissance", which aimed to make the city of Marseille a more dynamic artistic centre. With Auguste Chabaud, Pierre Girieud and Alfred Lombard, Mathieu Verdilhan helped to place Marseille alongside Paris and Munich in the great battle for modernity... His own pictorial preoccupations, especially from 1911 onwards, brought him closer to the work of the German expressionists, and in particular the group Der Blaue Reiter which had just been created around Kandinsky. The painter experimented with sinuous lines, triang
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